The Widow's Ridge Statement: a free Western logic-grid puzzle

The trouble at Widow's Ridge reached the territorial paper before it reached the sheriff, which tells you something. Settle it the only way it can be settled.

This free Rookie logic-grid puzzle has 4 suspects, 4 locations, and 4 pieces of evidence. New to logic grids? Start with the pencil-solving guide.

How to mark the grid

●: These two belong together.
✕: These two are ruled out.
blank: Still undecided.

How to play

Click, tap or press Enter on a cell to cycle it: blank, then ● for a confirmed pairing, then ✕ for one you have ruled out. Nothing fills itself in — the deductions are yours to make. Use the arrow keys to move around the grid.

Fill obvious Xs does the bookkeeping only: for each ● you have marked, it crosses off the rest of that pairing's own row and column. It never adds a ●, never reads a clue, and never changes a mark you made.

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

Every case has exactly one solution, and it is always reachable by deduction alone. Nothing here guesses for you, and Check will not tell you which mark is wrong.

Clues and evidence

Half the county saw Tin-Star Tucker at Silver Hollow.
Old Man Ferris was at Sunbaked Mesa — that much is settled.
Nobody could connect Old Man Ferris to the missing lasso.
Tin-Star Tucker never laid hands on the snapped bowstring.
Tin-Star Tucker had nothing to do with the powder-burned glove.
The deputy struck the missing lasso off Sundance Marlow's account.
The missing lasso never belonged to Tin-Star Tucker.
Sundance Marlow had no use for the powder-burned glove.
Sundance Marlow was never at Widow's Ridge.

The grid

On a narrow screen the grid scrolls sideways.

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